Crab,
you mustn't attempt to change history. The RN invented SAR from helos. They have kept it firmly grounded in that it is trully a secondary role, something that needs to be kept on the back burner once they realised there was no mystery to it. Remember - the RN spend 90% of their time flying over inhospitable terrain where ther option to land as an escape route during SAR missions is not available. They invented NVG way back in 1982 doing insertions in through the back door in the Falklands when you were only 25 (
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I don't recall any serious incidents of late where RN SAR cabs,have dented their aircraft - must have been the RAF then that made the news.
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Don't recall any RN cabs landing for ice creams
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Remember the motto: KISS. And this applies to SAR. The RN applies it and the civvies apply it. The CAA are all over the SAROC - it will work and without all the pomp and circumstance that the RAF attach to it
. I thank you.